When I first started attending church, it wasn’t unusual to see a sign out the front of a church with the name of the church, and “the minister” and details of how to connect with the church. I gradually assumed from this that the “minister” was responsible for much of the running of the church with the assistance of a team of helpers and a number of spectators who regularly attended the church services.
I now know differently, with thanks to Pastor Ray Stedman who wrote a book entitled, Body Life, and then came to visit my city to share God’s design for the church, the body of Jesus Christ.…
I will never forget reading a book by Dr. Denis Waitley called Seeds of Greatness where he writes, “The average person dies with millions of unused brain cells.” About that time, I also read that most people use about 400 words in more than 80% of their everyday conversations. That is 400 words out of about 450,000 words in the English dictionary. If we learnt 10 new words every day for one year we could become among the most learned and well-spoken individuals in the world. Motivated by this fact, I set as a goal for the following year that I would learn one new word every day and bought …